SMITH, Arthur Henry
| Service Number: | 2452 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Inverell, New South Wales, Australia, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Holyoake, Murray, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sleeper hewer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2452, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 2452, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 2452, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Fremantle | |
| 3 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2452, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2452 awm_unit: 51 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-03 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Brothers: 1364 Pte Albert John Smith, 51st Bn, died of wounds, 5 July 1916, and 3280 Pte Ernest Sidney Smith, 28th Bn, died of wounds, 8 August 1916.
Mrs. Susannah Harrison of Western Australia lost her three sons Albert, Ernest and Arthur almost exactly one month after each other in July, August and September of 1916.
When the last of her sons, Arthur, went missing in action at the battle of Mouquet Farm on September 3rd 1916, she wrote to the Red Cross desperately seeking any information about his whereabouts, stating 'I have lost two sons in France, one in July and one in August so am naturally very uneasy about this one'. Unfortunately, his body was never recovered and he was posted as missing he was later classified as KIA on 3 September 1916.